Miroslav Fryčer
Date of birth | September 27, 1959 |
place of birth | Opava , Czechoslovakia |
date of death | April 27, 2021 |
Nickname | Mirko, Frigo |
size | 183 cm |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Career stations | |
1977-1981 | TJ Vítkovice |
1981-1982 | Nordiques de Quebec |
1982-1988 | Toronto Maple Leafs |
1988-1989 | Detroit Red Wings |
1989 | Edmonton Oilers |
1989-1991 | EHC Freiburg |
1991-1992 | EV Bruneck |
Coaching stations | |
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1994 | HC Vítkovice Steel ( assistant coach ) |
1995-1996 | AZ Havířov |
1996-1998 | EV Bruneck |
1998-2001 | HC Merano |
2001-2002 | Ritten sport |
2006-2007 | HC Vítkovice Steel |
2008 | SG Cortina |
2008 | AZ Havířov |
2010-2013 | SHC Fassa |
2013 | HC Merano |
2014 | KH Sanok |
2016 | HC Morzine-Avoriaz |
2017-2021 | HC Orli Znojmo |
Miroslav "Mirko" Fryčer (born September 27, 1959 in Opava , Czechoslovakia , † April 27, 2021 ) was a Czech ice hockey player and coach. In his career, he completed more than 400 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Toronto Maple Leafs , Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League .
Career as a player
Miroslav Fryčer began his career in the youth teams of TJ Vítkovice , for whose men's team he made his debut in the 1977/78 season in the top division of Czechoslovakia, the 1st division . In the following three years he established himself within the team and contributed 33 goals and 24 assists to winning the Czechoslovak Championship in the 1980/81 season .
After this success, Fryčer decided to leave Czechoslovakia and fled to Canada. There he was obliged by the Nordiques de Québec , who first used him in the American Hockey League at Fredericton Express . In October 1981 he made his debut for the Nordiques in the NHL and scored a hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs in his first game . In addition to Fryčer, three other Czechoslovaks played with the Nordiques with the three Šťastný brothers Anton , Peter and Marián . Since the brothers mostly acted together in a row, Fryčer played with Canadians in a row, so that he remained largely isolated due to the language barrier. Despite 37 scorer points in 49 NHL games, the Nordiques gave Fryčer to the Toronto Maple Leafs shortly before the trade deadline in 1982, which sent Wilf Paiement to Québec .
In the following seven years, Fryčer played for the Maple Leafs, which were among the worst teams in the NHL in the 1980s. Fryčer flourished at the side of Peter Ihnačák and reached 75 scorer points in 73 season games in the 1985/86 season, which earned him an invitation to the 37th National Hockey League All-Star Game . On January 8, 1986 Fryčer scored four goals in a game against the Edmonton Oilers - after the game Oilers player Wayne Gretzky described Fryčer as a "great ice hockey player".
In the following years Fryčer had to struggle with injuries again and again, so that he never completed more than 40 season games. In addition, he did not get along with the new coach of the Maple Leafs, John Brophy , so he was given in June 1988 in exchange for Darren Veitch to the Detroit Red Wings . But he could not establish himself in Detroit and was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers in January 1989. After 14 games for the Oilers, in which he scored another ten points, he ended his NHL career. In total, he completed 432 games in the NHL, in which he scored 150 goals and gave 191 templates.
After leaving the NHL, Fryčer returned to Europe and joined the EHC Freiburg , which his father Jaromir looked after as head coach. As early as 1987 Jaromir and Miroslav Fryčer had built a house in Freiburg-Hochdorf , where Miroslav Fryčer spent the summer breaks of the NHL. He also took part in the EHCF's summer training several times as a guest. After leaving North America, Fryčer bought another house in Freiburg, which he moved into in September 1989 with his wife Vera and their two daughters Lucie and Petra. In two seasons for the EHCF, where he played with other Czechoslovaks such as Jiří Crha , Milan Chalupa and Vítězslav Ďuriš , he scored 22 goals and 36 assists before moving to Serie A at EV Bruneck . With the club from the Pustertal he played parallel in Serie A and in the Alpine League . In the summer of 1992 he returned to Germany and was signed by ESV Königsbrunn before finally ending his active career.
International
In addition to his successes at club level, Fryčer was a regular for the Czechoslovak national team around 1980 . In 1977 he took part in the European Championship with the U18 selection. In 1978 and 1979 he was a member of the U20 Junior World Championship squad, with whom he won the silver medal at the 1979 U20 World Championship.
With the men's national team, he took part in two world championships and an Olympic ice hockey tournament. At the 1980 Winter Olympics , he finished fifth with the national team. He also won a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships in 1979 and 1981. He played a total of 52 games in the national jersey, in which he scored 14 goals.
Career as a coach
Since the end of his career, Fryčer has been working as an ice hockey coach and player agent. In June 1994 he was hired by HC Havířov as head coach, but left this club in November of the same year to become assistant coach at HC Vítkovice . Since he was released in January 2005 at his hometown club, he returned to HC Havířov. He stayed there until the end of the 1995/96 season. In the summer of 1996 he was signed by his former club EV Bruneck , and with this he reached third place in Serie A in 1997 . He was also nominated for Trainer of the Year.
In 1998 he moved within Serie A to HC Meran , which he was head coach until 2001 and with whom he won the Italian championship in 1999. In the 2001/02 season he worked at SV Ritten before he devoted himself to founding and building up his FG Sports Agency , a player and coaching agency , between 2002 and 2006 . In addition, he trained the U20 juniors of SK Karviná during this time .
In November 2006 he received the offer to succeed Vladimír Vůjtek at his hometown club. He worked for HC Vítkovice until December 2007, before he was fired and replaced by Ernest Bokroš . In the same month he was committed by SG Cortina from Serie A, which he led to the playoff quarter-finals.
Between September and December 2008 Fryčer looked after the HC Havířov again. In early September 2010 he signed a contract as head coach at SHC Fassa from the Italian A1 series , where he replaced Steve Stirling . On September 14, it was announced that he, too, is leaving SHC Fassa before the season starts. After Mike Posma's dismissal in December 2010, the Czech was hired again as head coach at SHC Fassa. For the 2013/14 season he was signed by the second division HC Meran, but dismissed in November 2013 and replaced by Larry Suarez .
On January 11, 2014, he became the head coach of the Polish Ciarko PBS Bank Sanok and was responsible for this club until the end of the 2014/15 season. He was then sports director at SK Karvina before he was hired as head coach by HC Morzine-Avoriaz from Ligue Magnus in January 2016 .
Since February 2018, Fryčer has been the head coach of Orli Znojmo from the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .
He died at the end of April 2021 after a brief illness.
Achievements and Awards
- 1977 silver medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
- 1979 silver medal at the U20 World Cup
- 1979 silver medal at the world championship
- 1981 bronze medal at the world championship
- 1981 Czechoslovakian champion with the TJ Vítkovice
- 1985 Participation in the 37th National Hockey League All-Star Game
Career statistics
As a player
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V. | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V. | Pt | SM | ||
1977-78 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 34 | 12th | 10 | 22nd | 24 | |||||||
1978-79 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 44 | 22nd | 12th | 34 | ||||||||
1979-80 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 44 | 31 | 15th | 46 | 0 | |||||||
1980-81 | TJ Vítkovice | 1st League | 34 | 33 | 24 | 57 | 0 | |||||||
1981-82 | Fredericton Express | AHL | 11 | 9 | 5 | 14th | 16 | |||||||
1981-82 | Nordiques de Quebec | NHL | 49 | 20th | 17th | 37 | 47 | |||||||
Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 10 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 31 | ||||||||
1982-83 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 67 | 25th | 30th | 55 | 90 | 4th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 0 | ||
1983-84 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 47 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 55 | |||||||
1984-85 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 65 | 25th | 30th | 55 | 55 | |||||||
1985-86 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 73 | 32 | 43 | 75 | 74 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 10 | ||
1986-87 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 29 | 7th | 8th | 15th | 28 | |||||||
1987-88 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 38 | 12th | 20th | 32 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||
1988-89 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 23 | 7th | 8th | 15th | 47 | |||||||
Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 14th | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18th | ||||||||
1989-90 | EHC Freiburg | 1st BL | 11 | 4th | 13th | 17th | 19th | |||||||
1990-91 | EHC Freiburg | 1st BL | 33 | 18th | 23 | 41 | 48 | |||||||
1991-92 | EV Bruneck | Alpine League | 18th | 9 | 24 | 33 | 21 | |||||||
1991-92 | EV Bruneck | Series A | 17th | 19th | 15th | 34 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4th | ||
1992-93 | ESV Königsbrunn | OIL | ||||||||||||
NHL overall | 415 | 147 | 183 | 330 | 486 | 17th | 3 | 8th | 11 | 16 |
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
As a trainer
Source: FG Sports Agency
Period | team | position | league | placement |
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June 1994 - November 1994 | HC Havířov | Trainer | 1st League | |
November 1994 - January 1995 | HC Vítkovice | Assistant coach | Extra league | |
January 1995 - April 1995 | HC Havířov | Trainer | 1st League | final |
1995/96 | HC Havířov | Trainer | 1st League | 4th Place |
1996/97 | EV Bruneck | Trainer | Series A | 3rd place |
1997/98 | EV Bruneck | Trainer | Series A | 5th place |
1998/99 | HC Merano | Trainer | Alpine League | Semifinals |
1998/99 | HC Merano | Trainer | Series A | master |
1999/00 | HC Merano | Trainer | Series A | Play-offs |
2000/01 | HC Merano | Trainer | Series A | Play-offs |
2001/02 | SV Renon | Trainer | Series A | |
2002-2006 | Development of the FG Sports Agency | |||
November 2006 - December 2007 | HC Vítkovice | Trainer | Extra league | |
December 2007 - April 2008 | SG Cortina | Trainer | Series A | Quarter finals |
September 2008 - December 2008 | HC Havířov | Trainer | 1st League | |
December 2010 - 2013 | SHC Fassa | Trainer | Series A1 | |
Summer 2013 - November 2013 | HC Merano | Trainer | Inter-National League | dismiss |
January 2014 - April 2015 | KH Sanok | Trainer | Ekstraliga | master |
Web links
- Miroslav Fryčer in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Miroslav Fryčer at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Miroslav Fryčer at rodi-db.de
- Miroslav Fryčer in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c mapleleafslegends.blogspot.com, Legend Miroslav Frycer
- ↑ Miroslav Frycer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ↑ a b historie.hokej.cz, Miroslav Fryčer
- ↑ http://hokej.hansal.cz/cs_nej.html
- ↑ hc-vitkovice.cz trenér M. Fryčer
- ↑ hockeyclubfassa.com, Il Fassa volta pagina e annuncia Miroslav Frycer ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hockeytime.net, Fassa - Anche Frycer non verrà
- ↑ http://khsanok.net/news/114-miroslav-frycer-trenerem-ciarko-pbs-bank-kh-sanok
- ^ Zemřel Miroslav Fryčer . In: hcorli.cz from April 27, 2021.
- ↑ fgs.bz.it, Coaching Stats ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fryčer, Miroslav |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fryčer, Mirko; Frycer, Miroslav |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Opava , Czechoslovakia |
DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 2021 |